Local characters
Found: Carlisle St ‘beat’
Street barbie
“What are you doing that for?” he said.
“To make people think” J replied, “and make their own meaning.”
He paused for a second, then said “you know in the 30s there was this fellow who used to write the word Eternity in chalk on the pavement. He did it for years all over Sydney, the same word over and over again.”
“That’s one of the ideas behind this work” J said enthusiastically.
“I could think of better things to do with my time” he answered. “But it was nice talking to you” he said as he walked away.
Found: Carliste St – was it another “bookcrossing“?
Or was it somebody passing on their favourite books for others to enjoy?
I called it “book leavings”
but it is officially called “bookcrossing”
n. the practice of leaving a book in a public place to be picked up and read by others, who then do likewise.
Found: Balaclava Station
Pacifist tourists, the big new threat
“Under the present expansive and ill-defined terms “terrorist” and “security threat”, ordinary Australians organising or participating in rallies, protests or public meetings could potentially be investigated by ASIO.”
By Brian Walters – The Age – 13th September
“Your little boy’s got a money box hasn’t he?
Give him these. The supermarket won’t let me pay with this amount of change”, he said. “It happened the other night, I was so upset I went home with out my dinner and haven’t been back since”.
“Can I tell you another story? he continued. “One day this fellow gave me five cents…I’d just sung 3 songs for him and he asked for change. I was so annoyed that I said, ‘you can keep it then’ and flicked it back. But you see the angle was all wrong and it hit him on the nose, not hard or anything like that. Then the bugger called the police. Luckily only one copper came and told me to be more careful and stay out of trouble.”.
Most sex workers workers use heroin. Most women use heroin because they have been sexually abused. Most sex workers are regularly raped.
